Around a month ago Liza DeBlock (one of our MLitt in Book History students) pulled from the shelf this very interesting book during her regularly… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 2: a new 15th century fragment joins a fragmentary history
A few months ago, while walking the stacks of our 17th century collections, a copy of Andrea Morosini’s folio Historia Veneta (1623) caught my eye.… Read More »A Tale of Two Cities: fragment of extremely rare 17th century Glasgow Catechism uncovered
On the 15th of May, Hermine Lefebvre, USTC/ENSSIB intern for 2014, completed a wonderful cataloguing project which has seen all of St Andrews’ 17th century… Read More »Cataloguing of all 17th Century Books by Athanasius Kircher Complete!
I’ve been doing some work in the stacks lately with our interns and have been focusing some attention on our 17th century reserve collections (around… Read More »Highlight from the stacks: Kircher’s Tower of Babel (1679)
This June, the Department of Special Collections launched Lighting the Past, a project to catalogue the 150,000 books not currently represented in the University Library’s… Read More »Completed: a Grand Gathering of the Geographical Gallimaufry!
In 1893, King Chulalongkorn ordered the first printing ever of the Tipitaka (or, “the three baskets,” the Pali canon which forms the doctrinal foundation of… Read More »Cataloguing efforts uncover a royal gift to the University of St Andrews from the King of Siam in 1896
Earlier this year, Howard S. Mott, Inc. brought to our attention a book from their stock which would fit our collection very nicely. The book… Read More »Robert Lambert Playfair and his ‘Account of Aden’: a new acquisition adds to substantial archive
Last weekend marked the close of another cataloguing project: bringing all of the records for our incunabula collection (pre-1501 printed works) up to a full… Read More »Full cataloguing of the St Andrews Incunabula Collection complete!
Last year I was working on this item from our Typograhpical Collection and stumbled upon the present conundrum. Featured above is the title page to… Read More »Cataloguer’s Conundrum: an 18th century imprint on 19th century paper??
One can always expect some surprises when working through an incunabula collection, however this little find came of something of a surprise. Yesterday I pulled… Read More »15th century Italian miniature uncovered
This very pretty book was the last book off my shelf today for cataloguing. Not a bad way to end a day, eh? This is… Read More »Not a bad way to end a day
Whilst recataloguing our copy of a 1473 Augsburg printing of a collection of works in German (including a translation of Pope Gregory I‘s Dialogorum libri… Read More »500 year old inky fingerprints uncovered in German incunabule
